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Discreet Signaling: An Information-Theoretic Perspective

Date: Wednesday, May 17, 08:30 - 09:30
Location: Auditorium St Exupery

Presented by

Pierre Moulin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Chair

Benoit Macq, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium

Abstract

For thousands of years, humans have sought means to secretly communicate. Today, ad hoc signaling methods are used in applications as varied as digital rights management for multimedia, content identification, authentication, steganography, transaction tracking, and networking. This talk will overview some of these applications as well as an information-theoretic framework for designing provably good signaling schemes. Key ingredients of this framework include models for the signals being communicated and the degradations, jammers and eavesdroppers that may be encountered during transmission.

Speaker Biography

Pierre Moulin received his D.Sc. from Washington University in St. Louis in 1990. After working for five years as a Research Scientist for Bell Communications Research in Morristown, New Jersey, he joined the University of Illinois, where he is currently Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Research Professor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory, faculty member in the Beckman Institute's Image Formation and Processing Group, and affiliate professor in the department of Statistics. He is also a member of the Information Trust Institute. His fields of professional interest are information theory, image and video processing, statistical signal processing and modeling, decision theory, information hiding and authentication, and the application of multiresolution signal analysis, optimization theory, and fast algorithms to these areas.

In 1996-1998, he served as Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, and in 1999, he was co-chair of the IEEE Information Theory workshop on Detection, Estimation and Classification. He was a Guest Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 2000 special issue on Information-Theoretic Imaging; Guest Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing's 2003 special issue on Data Hiding; and member of the IEEE Image and Multidimensional Signal Processing (IMDSP) Society Technical Committee (1998-2003). He is currently Area Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing and Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. He is a fellow of IEEE and member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. He has received a 1997 Career award from the National Science Foundation, and the IEEE Signal Processing Society 1997 Best Paper award in the IMDSP area. He is also co-author (with Juan Liu) of a paper that received the IEEE Signal Processing Society 2002 Young Author Best Paper award in the IMDSP area. He was selected as 2003 Beckman Associate of UIUC's Center for Advanced Study and was awarded the 2005 Sony Faculty Scholar Award. In 1996, 1999, 2000 and 2005, he was on the Dean's list of teachers rated excellent by their students.